“Crucial consideration” is a term that Nick Bostrom created, and it’s essentially an idea or argument that might plausibly reveal the need for not just some minor course adjustment in our practical endeavors, but a major change in direction or priority. We can break down practical endeavors into three components. We can look at our primary goal, our evaluation standard, and our focus area.

So if our primary goal as EAs is to help others as effectively as possible, then we might define our evaluation standard as improving the quality of life or reducing the suffering of moral patients. And so the simple case we might make for wild animal suffering, is that suffering experiences in the wild are intense and frequent, and they affect an enormous number of beings. The majority of animals are short-lived and they experience many forms of prolonged chronic suffering like hunger, injury, parasitism, and disease. Reducing the suffering experiences of wild animals will improve the lives of a large percentage of moral patients. So, if we have cost-effective solutions, we should work on resolving the problem.

Now, an example of a crucial consideration here would be, “Well, what if wild animals can’t suffer?” In that case, our interventions aren’t adding any value and pursuing the goal would be pointless because we’re not actually doing any good. One point before I move on, though, is that I think there is very strong evidence that many wild animals can suffer.

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• Although they have a bad reputation, wasps are a vital part of the environment for pollination and eradicating other disease-carrying insects that threaten humans, reports Global Citizen.
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I was 10 years old when a wasp stung me on ... well, on a place my editor won’t let me mention.
Typical, though, right? You’re living your life, minding your business. Then: malevolence and treachery! The Machiavellian pinprick of uncompromising evil!
But we must not judge a wasp by its brother — scientists have just highlighted that they’re one of the most important organisms on the planet.
It’s almost dogma: bees rock, wasps suck.
But both are crucial for pollination — the process that allows plant life to reproduce — and wasps actually go one step further: annihilating other insects that carry diseases that could threaten human beings.
Wasps are equally threatened by climate change and loss of habitats as bees. But if nobody likes them, is their future — and ours — in danger?
Read the full article about the importance of wasps by James Hitchings-Hales and Erica Sanchez at Global Citizen.

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